Exhibit Hall, Day 1

My thoughts from the floor. A decent selection of things to view, technologies to partake in. I met a couple VFXTalkers, good to finally put names to faces, and also some former coworkers from Tippett and elsewhere! Siggraph is the place to get together with former coworkers and just have a good conversation about all sorts of things. Great stuff. Some of the companies present that I visited were Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, Blue Sky (right behind our booth), Laika, Pixar, ILM, and Imagemovers Digital.

On the tech side, there seems to be a significant display of stereoscopic options, both anaglyph and polarized, and some 3D panels with no need for glasses. I was approached while at the booth by a vendor who had developed a stereo technology that didn't rely on glasses at all.. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to see a demo, since this was the first year they were there. I met a couple students from VFS, some from Gnomon and Expressions, so there was a good student turnout so far as well. I also got a chance to actually meet new people at DD that I had never met before! Mostly from the commercials side of things. We're a big studio, so naturally we don't get a chance to meet everyone.

I was pretty excited to have my first presentation at the DD booth yesterday at 2:30.. We had a great turnout, and if you were there, you'll remember the spill over into the aisles! Digital Domain had a great location as well, right at the entrance to the convention, so pretty much the first thing you see is Vicon and Digital Domain. One of the big drawbacks is that Vicon is so loud. Hopefully that will change as the exhibit goes on. Today, at 3:30pm, I'm doing the same presentation, but this time with more footage tacked onto the end, which contains all our sweet work on the show.

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